North Korean leader feels constrained by international doubts about his motives

SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “unequivocally committed to denuclearization” but feels constrained by international doubts about his true motives, South Korea’s national security adviser said Thursday after returning from a visit to Pyongyang a day earlier.

South Korean national security adviser Chung Eui-yong, who led a special delegation of senior South Korean security officials to the North Korean capital, met with Mr. Kim on Wednesday and shared “in-depth and wide-ranging discussions concerning various pending...

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